High Tide
“Tiny, squirming, chocolate-brown bundles with black teddy-bear noses. Six weeks old and delightfully determined, shoving each other out of the way, batting each other with their too-large paws, rolling around and wrestling while their long-suffering mum looked on.
Nathan picked up each of them carefully in one hand, checking them over for injury, examining their eyes and ears before plopping them back down in the pen. Then he inspected Monkey, checking her teats for blockages, making sure she w...asn’t too thin.
He still couldn’t tell what breed the father might have been. Monkey was a border terrier, with a rough, dun-coloured coat, while the puppies were shinier and darker. She had certainly lived up to her name.
He’d named her when he went to choose her, two years earlier, from a farm right out on the moors. He’d picked her out of the litter and held her to him. She had put her paws either side of his neck, staring at him with bright-brown eyes. ‘Hello, monkey,’ he had said, and somehow the name had stuck.MoreLess
Nathan picked up each of them carefully in one hand, checking them over for injury, examining their eyes and ears before plopping them back down in the pen. Then he inspected Monkey, checking her teats for blockages, making sure she w...asn’t too thin.
He still couldn’t tell what breed the father might have been. Monkey was a border terrier, with a rough, dun-coloured coat, while the puppies were shinier and darker. She had certainly lived up to her name.
He’d named her when he went to choose her, two years earlier, from a farm right out on the moors. He’d picked her out of the litter and held her to him. She had put her paws either side of his neck, staring at him with bright-brown eyes. ‘Hello, monkey,’ he had said, and somehow the name had stuck.MoreLess
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